Project leader

Funding source

Project details

2018–2019

Members of the project

Gudny Björk Eydal, University of Iceland

Anne-Lise Ellingsaeter, University of Oslo

Michael Rush, University College Dublin

Description

This project researches Nordic models of fatherhood and gender equality as hotbeds of welfare innovation and explores to what extent some countries are trying to ‘import’ similar models. Specifically, we focus on countries that have attempted to follow Nordic models of parental leave with father quotas namely Germany, Japan and Slovenia. We will compile research on motivators, forces (actors) and outcomes (take-up) of father quotas in Iceland, Norway and Sweden and investigate to what extent, if any these dimensions are transformed when applied elsewhere. The obvious example is how gender equality motivations might be exchanged for fertility concerns outside Nordic countries. The project will initiate a framing of how policies are spread between countries, in particular how Nordic parental leave policies are perceived and used as examples elsewhere.